jom is a general make replacement now

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Casper van Donderen
<casper.vandonderen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Andre Heinecke <aheinecke at intevation.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Sonntag, 7. November 2010 23:00:25 schrieb Patrick Spendrin:
>>>> Ok, binaries from Christian have been uploaded & a new emerge target has
>>>> been added:
>>>> Please retry emerge -i --target=101-patched jom
>>>
>>> To give feedback here, the new version thats default now works great, it
>>> reduced our build times with msvc ~20%.
>>>
>>> Had a strange Problem with mingw though, during a large qt build i've killed
>>> emerge with control C and jom just kept building it although emerge and the
>>> controlprocess was dead.
>>>
>>> When a build breaks i get the message (this is with msvc):
>>> QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
>>>
>>> command failed with exit code 2
>>>
>>> command failed with exit code 2
>>>
>>> command failed with exit code 2
>>> emerge fatal error: while running make cmd: jom.exe -j8 VERBOSE=1
>>
>> Could you provide a short description on how to use jom (or a link to
>> where is this described)? I have emerged jom but make only launches
>> one compiler process.
>
> Jom normally auto-detects the amount of CPU's in the system and uses
> this amount as its amount of jobs.
>
> I believe I set EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM to also append the amount of jobs
> and silent mode.
> I'm not at home right now, but I believe my EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM is:
> EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM=%KDEROOT%\dev-utils\bin\jom.exe -j8 -s

Thanks, I'll take a look at that variable when I also get home :).

Regards,
Cristian